L2/10-083
From: Eric Muller
Date: 02/05/2010 09:45 AM
Subject: Indic abbreviation sign
A number of North Indic scripts use a particular sign to indicate
abbreviations; generally, this sign has the shape of a small circle.
Unicode currently encodes two characters: U+0970 DEVANAGARI ABBREVIATION
SIGN and U+110BB KAITHI ABBREVIATION SIGN, with the script property values
Common and Kaithi respectively. Gujarati is known to use an abbreviation
sign of this type (and there is indeed a proposal to encode it:
L2/09-330); it is very likely that the Bengali script also uses an
abbreviation sign of this type.
As for the dandas, a number of different approaches are possible: use
U+0970 with all scripts, encode script-specific abbreviation signs, or a
combination thereof.
This document proposes this general principle for the North Indic
abbreviation sign: encode script-specific abbreviation signs of this type
for North Indic scripts as evidence of their use is found.
In addition, this document also recommends to change the script property
of U+0970 to Devanagari.